Dark Sky Point Reyes is a West Marin collaborative project fostered by the Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County Supervisor Dennis Rodoni, and the surrounding communities PRNS to preserve the night skyscape in this beautiful and environmentally diverse area in perpetuity.

Sky Preservation Work

Each month, in concert with the Point Reyes National Seashore, the Point Reyes Station Village Association presents a benefit stargazing event to support its work to preserve the coastal nightscape. Sky preservation work includes efforts for all of West Marin to:

• help property/business owners or managers lessen light pollution and trespass
• qualify this area as an International Dark Sky Reserve
• update Marin County Lighting regulations

Monthly Stargazing Events

Join astronomy teacher and storyteller extraordinaire Don Jolley just before each new moon to learn the names of planets, stars, and constellations and listen to spellbinding stories about billions and billions of celestial bodies. Keep an eye on the right side of this page for announcements about the upcoming stargazings, and Don’s weather reports. Mark your calendar!

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• “If we don’t dim our bulbs, it’s going to be lights out for the Milky Way — and a lot of living things”
  by Peggy
  Opinion today 5/5/23 in Washington Post: . . . “I’m grateful to the DarkSky Committee. Its members have no authority (there’s no law restricting my lumens), but theywere persuasive. It turns out my lights weren’t doing much harm to neighbors, but they were doinga whole lot of harm to other living things.Night skies have been getting nearly 10 … Read more